Marked the date on my calendar. Gotta be sure not to schedule anything else on the day when I must stay at home to mock all of those going to this.
I'm really curious if there will be any special edition style tweaks. I guess we may know more with the Blu-ray release. I have always felt that TPM would have been much better if we had seen just how bad things were on Naboo under the Trade Federation occupation. It would have created more of a sense of urgency and that what was going on was a real emergency. Because you see so little of that it just didn't seem like the characters were in much of a hurry to get things done.
A long time ago (last September), Lucasfilm announced plans to begin re-releasing the Star Wars movies in 3-D, starting with The Phantom Menace. Today, 20th Century Fox announced that the movie will be released on Feb. 10, 2012.
To paraphrase Darth Vader – will this be a day long remembered?
None of the Star Wars movies were shot in 3-D, so they are undergoing a conversion overseen by Industrial Light & Magic and digital pioneer, John Knoll, who is also the co-creator of PhotoShop. During the original announcement, Lucasfilm spokeswoman Lynne Hale said they were holding back on selecting a specific date because they wanted to provide enough time to do the 3-D reprocessing properly and not rush to meet an artificial deadline.
Though the prequels were shot more recently than the original Star Wars trilogy, they include many more complicated visual effects, which makes converting them much trickier, Knoll told USA Today in September. “There are thousands and thousands of flying images,” he says. “But the nice thing about stereo (visuals) is you get this wonderful immersive effect if it’s done right.”
Knoll said George Lucas wasn’t planning on changing anything else about the films, as he did in the ’90s when the original trilogy was re-released in theaters with upgraded special effects and a controversial Greed0-shoots-first story alteration.
I'll happily go see it. Sure I like the original movies better. It's what I grew up on. I don't mind the prequels. Just don't give me any of that Expanded Universe crap. It puts Star Wars fans on the same level as Trekkies with sheer geekiness.
One tweak to expect on TPM is an upgrade to digital Yoda from the crappy puppet they used.
I'm taking my kids--all the haters can stay home and mock me. That's fine.
The haters will be lined up with you to see it as well.
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